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6 dated entries naming Japanese calendar, drawn from 6 separate years between 607 CE and 1873 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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7th century

  • 607August 1 – Empress Suiko appoints Ono no Imoko as official envoy to the Sui Court (Japanese missions to Imperial China). She sends him to pay tribute to Emperor Yángdi, and let him deliver the famous letter from prince-regent Shōtoku which begins: "The Son of Heaven where the sun rises (Japan), to the Son of Heaven where the sun sets (China), may good health be with you." (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).source

8th century

  • 708August 29 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).source
  • 781July 31 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji occurs (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).source

12th century

  • 1183August 14 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures, and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan (traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).source

17th century

  • 1609February 4 – The last day of Keichō 慶長 13 (according to the Japanese lunar calendar).source

19th century

  • 1873January 1 – Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar.source

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